the distributed blocking flow shop scheduling problem (DBFSP) allows modeling of the scheduling process in companies with more than one factory, with productive systems configured as flow shop lines where the blocking ...

This paper proposes two constructive heuristics, i.e. HPF1 and HPF2, for the blocking flow shop problem in order to minimize the total flow time. They differ mainly in the criterion used to select the first job in the ...

In this paper it is shown that, in some cases, the insertion pro-cedure of NEH does not improve the solution quality. This fact is observed spe-cially in the NEH-based heuristics that have been proposed in the literature ...

In the Industrial Engineering there has been an evolution of methods, techniques and tools used to support production management through the 20th century, this paper tries to illustrate. Changes began from the classical ...

This paper proposes an Iterated Local Search (ILS) procedure and an Iterated Greedy (IG) algorithm, which are both combined with a variable neighbourhood search (VNS), for dealing with the flow shop problem with blocking, ...

In this paper, two tools to improve the performance of the NEH-based heuristics for the flow shop problem with and without buffer constraints are proposed. The first tool is the use of the reversibility property of the ...

In this paper, two tools to improve the performance of the NEHbased
heuristics for the flow shop problem with and without buffer constraints
are proposed. The first tool is the use of the reversibility property of ...

This paper deals with the assembly line balancing problem considering incompatibilities between the tasks with the aim of: first minimizing the number of workstations, and then minimizing the cycle time for the minimum ...

Jobs of more than two products (n>2) must be manufactured in a
production line of tanks. A hoist transports the jobs between tanks. If the size of both
batches is equal and the number of jobs is high, a cyclic scheduling ...

Jobs of two products must receive the same treatments in a production
line of tanks. If the size of both batches is equal, we propose a cyclic manufacturing
composed of a job from batch 1 and a job from batch 2. A hoist ...